Earth Day to May Day 2024 - Just Transition Alliance
Happy Earth Day!| Just Transition Alliance
Planting trees helps to mitigate climate change naturally, and improves communities in many ways. Imagine how we could transform local economies if thousands were employed in work like this! Photo credit: Alfo Medeiros [wikimedia commons]| Just Transition Alliance
Labor Day comes from the labor movement’s rich history and struggle. Brutal working conditions during the Industrial Revolution drove the US labor movement to push for a holiday for workers in addition to higher pay, reasonable hours, and safe working conditions. The Pullman Strike of 1894 finally forced the federal government to recognize Labor Day as a federal holiday. Pullman employees rose up and joined the American Railroad Union after the company cut wages by 25% and decreased its wor...| Just Transition Alliance
JTA’s new Policy Organizer Fernando at the Bonn Intersessional. Photo credit: Fernando Tormos-Aponte| Just Transition Alliance
Environmental Justice, Featured, Just TransitionSuccessful Trainings with JTA Partners| Just Transition Alliance
In early May, Executive Director José Bravo and Strategy Advisor Ananda Lee Tan participated as observers at the first Congress of the International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where waste and recycling workers from over 32 countries elected their first international executive body and council, with balanced representation from all five continents. The Congress also passed over a dozen resolutions, including resolutions to act in solidarity of all workers see...| Just Transition Alliance
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse is a collaborative effort that has defined our allied climate justice movement’s opposition to neoliberal trade agreements, market-based policies and corporate techno-fixes aimed at protecting and subsidizing the extractive energy corporations causing climate chaos. These include schemes such as pollution trading and forestry carbon offsets; and, expensive and unproven techno-fixes like nuclear power, carbon capture and storage, megadams, bioenergy, hydrogen fuels...| Just Transition Alliance
